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TIL a public treasurer lost $1.2m of a Michigan county’s money to a Nigerian email scam

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5BJk TIL there is a weird underground of titleless, unsearchable YouTube videos
1ZYV TIL North Korea has a “three generations of punishment” system, where individuals found guilty of a crime are sent to the labour camps with their entire family.The subsequent two generations of that family are then born in the camp and live their lives locked up inside
neN57 TIL that Marvel successfully argued in court that Mutants are not people and thus got to pay the lower rate on X-Men "toys" instead of the higher rate for dolls because they are not human.
9Vmr TIL that birth certificates produced for children born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan Project read “P.O. Box 1663” as the place of birth.
YpMAA TIL that two men from Indiana were wrongfully convicted in a 1996 armed robbery because of a false statement from an informant who had sex with the lead detective who set them up. 20 years later, they were found innocent and one of them received $4.9 Million settlement.